New World Order outside the brick and mortar
Super Bowl ads will be fads by third quarter
Gotta be edgy, so we hire Crispin Porter
But you know it's like a brain disorder

We do the talking but then we don't listen
to the folks we provoke by dismissin'
what they got to say when they speak their mind
Flying blind and now we redefine

CHORUS

OBLIGATORY GUITAR SOLO

CHORUS

This was kind of my way of wrapping a few messages up into one audio comment. First of all, the song lyrics themselves are an expression of the frustration with big advertisers who simply turn up the noise level and ignore their customers, while those customers are being assaulted with more broadcast messages every day. In short, advertisers like to shout, but they hate to listen.

And then there's the message inherent - In my earlier post to Joseph on my blog, I mentioned that "Noise" took just 3.5 hours from concept to finished product. (Yeah, it's not something I'd groove to on a Saturday night - I know. My songwriting skills have gone to shit since I started this whole advertising thing...) But the notion of professional recordings, professional videos, professionally-produced content in general coming from the basement studios of millions should be something that completely scares the crap out of the traditional media business.

If I can produce a professionally-mixed recording cheaply, if Joe Blow can make a documentary for under $1,000, if people end up wanting to make their own music videos instead of watching the crappy ones on cable TV - well, you get it.

Also featured on episode #32 was an audio comment from friend and client Sean Cheyney. He sent Joseph an audio comment about Hasbro's Oozinator, and asked whether he thought the agency pulled a fast one on Hasbro.

I'm not sure. I know kids have a fascination with ooze, but I've never seen it advertised in, um, quite this fashion. It reminded me of certain spams I've gotten for bukkake porn.

It does make me wonder if maybe the creative folks at Hasbro's agency saw that they had to come up with a campaign for a lame product and decided to engage in a little "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" humor. If so, they're laughing at the client and not with them, because unless this is some sort of orchestrated stunt, Hasbro wouldn't let a kid's commercial with such flagrantly sexual overtones anywhere near the airwaves.